Changing Consoles after RancherOS has started

You can view which console is being used by RancherOS by checking which console container is running in System Docker. If you wanted to switch consoles, you just need to run a simple command and select your new console.

Note: When switching between consoles, the currently running console container is destroyed, Docker is restarted and you will be logged out.

Console persistence

All consoles except the default (busybox) console are persistent. Persistent console means that the console container will remain the same and preserves changes made to its filesystem across reboots. If a container is deleted/rebuilt, state in the console will be lost except what is in the persisted directories.

/home
/opt
/var/lib/docker
/var/lib/rancher

Note: When using a persistent console and in the current version’s console, rolling back is not supported. For example, rolling back to v0.4.5 when using a v0.5.0 persistent console is not supported.

Enabling Consoles

You can also enable a console that will be changed at the next reboot.